Somerville

Older Bostonians might still derisively call it "Slummerville", but today that tired old moniker couldn't be further from the truth. Packed with upwardly mobile professionals and longtime residents, Somerville is often voted an "All-America City" and the best-run city in .
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  • Type: City with 81,000 residents
  • Description: city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Somerville (Massachusetts)”, “Somerville, MA”, “Somerville, Massachusetts”, “Thành phố Somerville”, “サマーヴィル (マサチューセッツ州)”, “サマービル (マサチューセッツ州)”, and “ソマーヴィル”
  • Postal codes: 02143-02145
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard Art Museums.

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The are part of Harvard University…

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The is a natural…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cambridge and Charlestown.

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is a city in , across the Charles River from .

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's was the traditional home of employees at the now-decommissioned Navy Yard.

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is a city in , United States.

Somerville

Latitude
42.3876° or 42° 23′ 15″ north
Longitude
-71.0995° or 71° 5′ 58″ west
Population
81,000
Elevation
92 feet (28 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US UZB
Open location code
87JC9WQ2+26
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158861032
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4951257
Wiki­data ID
Q49199
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Somerville” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سومرفيل”
  • Armenian: “Սոմերվիլ”
  • Basque: “Somerville”
  • Bulgarian: “Съмървил”
  • Catalan: “Somerville”
  • Cebuano: “Somerville”
  • Chechen: “Сомервиль”
  • Chinese: “萨默维尔”
  • Chinese: “薩默維爾”
  • Czech: “Somerville”
  • Dagbani: “Somerville”
  • Danish: “Somerville”
  • Dutch: “Somerville”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سومرفيل”
  • Esperanto: “Somerville”
  • French: “Somerville”
  • German: “Somerville”
  • Gilaki: “سؤمرويل (ماساچۊست)”
  • Gilaki: “سؤمرويل”
  • Greek: “Σόμερβιλ”
  • Haitian: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Somerville”
  • Hebrew: “סומרוויל”
  • Hungarian: “Somerville”
  • Interlingua: “Somerville”
  • Irish: “Somerville”
  • Italian: “Somerville”
  • Japanese: “サマーヴィル”
  • Japanese: “サマービル”
  • Kazakh: “Сомэрвилл”
  • Kirghiz: “Сомэрвилл”
  • Korean: “서머빌”
  • Ladin: “Somerville”
  • Latin: “Somerville”
  • Macedonian: “Сомервил”
  • Malagasy: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Malagasy: “Somerville”
  • Mazanderani: “سامرویل (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “سامرویل”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Somerville”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Somerville”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Somerville”
  • Norwegian: “Somerville”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Somerville”
  • Persian: “سامرویل، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “سامرویل”
  • Polish: “Somerville”
  • Portuguese: “Somerville”
  • Romanian: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Romanian: “Somerville”
  • Russian: “Сомервилл”
  • Serbian: “Самервил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Somerville”
  • Slovak: “Somerville”
  • Slovenian: “Somerville”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سامرویل، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Somerville”
  • Swahili: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Somerville”
  • Swedish: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Somerville”
  • Talysh: “Somervill”
  • Tatar: “Сомервиль”
  • Turkish: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Somerville”
  • Ukrainian: “Сомервіль”
  • Urdu: “سومرویل، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “سومرویل”
  • Uzbek: “Somerville”
  • Vietnamese: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Vietnamese: “Somerville”
  • Volapük: “Somerville”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Somerville”
  • Welsh: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Somerville”
  • Western Armenian: “Աոմըրվիլ”

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